Association of British Insurers
http://www.abi.org.uk/
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is the trade association for insurance companies and represents a large part of the UK insurance company market. Contains information about the association, membership details, press releases and information sheets for consumers on types of insurance.
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Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies (CRIS)
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/cris/
The Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies (CRIS) at the University of Nottingham was established in 1991 to encourage interdisciplinary insurance-related research, and to act as a clearing house for such work at a national level. Research undertaken by the Centre includes: the financial performance of insurance companies; liability insurance; healthcare and insurance; risk management; workplace risk and insurance issues in financial services. Details of the CRIS publications, staff and teaching activities are also available.
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Chartered Insurance Institute
http://www.cii.co.uk/
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) is the professional body for the insurance and financial services industry. It has a membership of over 70,000, principally drawn from the UK, but with members from all across the world. The CII obtained its Royal Charter in 1912, but the history of smaller institutes goes back to 1873. The CII promote training and development opportunities for its members with substantial information about career possibilities available from the site. The News section provides updates on developments.
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Fannie Mae
http://www.fanniemae.com/kb/index?page=home
The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (commonly known as Fannie Mae) is a government sponsored enterprise (GSE) of the United States federal government. It is a shareholder-owned corporation authorized to make loans and loan guarantees mainly in the housing and mortgage market. Its website provides information on its history, function and recent activities. It includes free access to recent press releases, speeches from executives, fact sheets for home owners and business partners and other full text documents. The latter include materials relating to affordable housing programmes in the USA, National housing surveys from 1996 onwards and economic and mortgage market analysis. There is also discussion of the impact of the credit crunch and sub-prime mortgages on the US housing market.
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Fannie Mae news: New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/fannie_mae/index.html
This site is maintained by the New York Times. It provides free access to news headlines, stories, comment and analysis relating to Fannie Mae, the Federal National Mortgage Association a leading player in the US mortgage market. These tend to focus on the financial performance of the company. They include recent share prices, annual reports and financial analysis of the mortgage and property market. There are also links to New York Times articles about the American housing market, housing policy and the effect of the crises surrounding the subprime mortgage market and credit crunch on American homebuyers and markets.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
http://www.fdic.gov/
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was set up in 1933 to promote sound banking practices in the US. The service contains information on FDIC's activities, lists of publications, bibliographies, etc., as well as historical statistics on banking.
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Financial Access for Immigrants: Lessons from Diverse Perspectives
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2006/05demographics_paulson.aspx
This 100-page report, authored by Anna Paulson, Audrey Singer, Robin Newberger and Jeremy Smith of behalf of the Brookings Institution in May 2006, examines the financial practices of immigrants - detailing how institutions have helped absorb immigrants into the financial mainstream. Improving access to financial institutions, particularly in inner-city areas has been of great interest to policy makers and advocates for many years. The report includes a number of case studies - for example, some moderate success has been achieved in extending the availability of basic services (such as bank branches) to poorer areas - and the authors make various recommendations for future policy development.
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Freddie Mac
http://www.freddiemac.com/
Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) of the United States federal government. It is a stockholder-owned corporation authorized to make loans and loan guarantees for the United States mortgage market. Its website provides free access to information about its role and recent activities. It includes a section for homebuyers on the American housing market, how to obtain a mortgage and mortgage rate calculators. Also accessible are its regular mortgage market surveys.These are usually issued weekly and contain detailed financial data on mortgage rate trends and prices in the USA. They also offer some discussion on the impact of the credit crunch and subprime mortgage market on homeownership in America.
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Insurance Bureau of Canada
http://www.ibc.ca/
The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is the national trade association of the private property and casualty (P&C) industry in Canada. Its main focus is to strengthen relations between business and government by identifying key areas of policy and developing policy papers and plans to be disseminated to a wider community. The site hosts substantial information including: a complete listing of members; explanation of insurance-related terms; News Releases; and a list of submissions to government. Perspective is a quarterly analysis of the financial performance of the P&C industry. The site is searchable and encourages feedback.
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Insurance Information Institute, US
http://www.iii.org/
The Insurance Information Institute provides information on the property/casualty insurance industry in the US. As well as providing a searchable catalogue of their publications and the full-text of their consumer brochures, there is a summary and commentary on the recent financial results for the US property/casualty insurance industry.
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Insurance Institute of London
http://www.iilondon.co.uk/
The Insurance Institute of London was established in 1907 with the following aims: "the cultivation of knowledge and information in all matters relating to the various branches of insurance". There are currently 12,500 members of the Institute. The London Institute holds a series of lectures and has a visits programme; an advanced studies scheme and it encourages career development by its public speaking courses and competitions. Details of the Journal of the Insurance Institute of London are available: the contents page and short abstracts of articles for the most recent edition and subscription information can be accessed.
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Insurance Research Council
http://www.ircweb.org/
The Insurance Research Council was founded in 1977 as an independent, non-profit making organization which deals with the issues concerning property and casualty insurance companies. This US based organization produces research and disseminates its findings widely but is not involved in lobbying government. The site hosts the results of its research, providing a bibliography of papers as well as links to short abstracts. The News Release service provides up to date information on the latest developments. There is also a listing of relevant web links.
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Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
http://www.pensions-journal.com/
The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance was launched in 2002 by Cambridge University Press (in association with the International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors (INPRS)). It claims to be "the only academic journal on pension economics and finance". There are three issues a year. Coverage is international. Examples of subjects considered include dual private pension households in the USA, late retirement and privatizing social security. Full text is available to subscribers only, but sample articles can be accessed by anyone.
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Morningstar
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/
Morningstar is a provider of independent investment research in the U.K., the U.S., and a number of other international markets. The website includes research articles, data and news, relating to investment opportunities, shares, funds, pensions and stock portfolios. Users can search for quotes by name or International Securities Identifying Number (ISIN), create and manage a portfolio and use fund tools and advisors. The site includes a glossary of financial terms, RSS feeds for the latest financial news, and free or paid membership to provide access to more features. It is easy to change the view of the website to see what is happening in a range of European, North American and Asian markets.
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Mortgage and landlord Possession Statistics
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/mortgatelandlordpossession.htm
This site is maintained by the Ministry of Justice. It provides free access to quarterly Mortgage Possession statistics. These were produced from 2007 onwards by the Ministry of Justice and prior to this (from 2004-7) by the Department for Constitutional Affairs)The data provided relates to mortgage possession actions entered (for households in mortgage arrears) and orders made in county courts in England and Wales. Figures for suspended orders are also provided. It does not cover repossessions. This information can be found on the Council of Mortgage Lenders website.
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Motley Fool (UK)
http://www.fool.co.uk/
The Motley Fool is a website aimed at educating individuals about personal finance and investment. The UK site was launched in June 1999 and has a specific focus on personal finance issues in the United Kingdom. There is advice and special reports which are presented in a light but informative manner.
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National Association of Insurance Commissioners
http://www.naic.org/
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is the organization of insurance regulators for the United States. The site provides a list of insurance regulators by state, with links to regulator's home pages. There is information on the workings of the NAIC committee, including meetings minutes; information on the current and potential use of information technology and the Internet for regulating insurance; and a number of papers produced by NAIC. There is also a products and publications catalogue and abstracts of the Journal of Insurance Regulation, published by NAIC, as well as, the National Portal Search Tool allowing users to search the NAIC and member department sites for regulatory insurance information.
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National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF)
http://www.napf.co.uk/
NAPF is an organisation representing "the interests of the occupational pensions movement" and is open to any employers. It offers its members research facilities, a monthly journal (NAPF News and Pensions World) and runs various local groups. NAPF can help members with marketing their pension schemes, can train staff operating pension schemes and has a resource centre for members. Some NAPF publications on this website can be accessed by anyone. NAPF holds annual conferences on all aspects of pensions, including the global dimension. Answers to some frequently asked questions about pensions are given on the site.
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National Pensioners Convention
http://www.npcuk.org/
The National Pensioners Convention is an umbrella body for pensioners' groups in the UK. It was formed in 1979 and has about 250 affiliated groups - national federations, associations of retired trade unionists and hundreds of local and regional pensioner campaign groups. It aims to promote the welfare and interests of all pensioners. The site contains lists of events, news items and pamphlets; some can be downloaded and others can be bought in paper format.
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Pension Service
http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/
The Pension Service is part of the UK Department of Work and Pensions. It is responsible for administering UK state pensions and benefits. Its website provides access to information on the purpose of the department and its current activities. It contains recent press releases, documents and fact sheets relating to all aspects of pensions. This includes consumer advice on entitlements, a state pension age calculator, online claim forms and details of current pension, state benefits and winter fuel payment rates.
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Pensions : World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/pensions
The Pensions section on The World Bank website, presents worldwide data on pensions. The site contains: a listing of World Bank papers; statistics; links to World Bank project data; a searchable pensions bibliography; pensions legislation; and information on social security programmes throughout the world. Documents and statistics are available in full-text.
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Pensions and retirement : Institute for Fiscal Studies
http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/browse/subject/12
This site is maintained by leading British think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). It provides free access to briefing papers, working papers and full-text reports published from 1998 to the present day, some bibliographic references and abstracts are offered for older materials. Topics covered include: occupational pension schemes, the funding of the State pension scheme, government policy towards retirement and retirement pension provision. Emphasis is upon economic analysis of the issues.
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Pensions Commission
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/tep/16806.html
The Pensions Commission was an independent body set up to keep under review the regime for UK private pensions and long term savings. The commission was announced in the Pensions Green Paper published in December 2002. Chairman Adair Turner, was the lead author on 3 reports, with the final recommendations coming out in April 2006 - these included raising the retirement age to 68 by 2050, future pension rises linked to earnings rather than inflation and reducing the means-testing of pension benefits. The reports and supporting documents are available from the website as PDF files. The Commission has completed its work and this is now an archived copy of their website.
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Pensions Institute
http://www.pensions-institute.org/
The Pensions Institute at Birkbeck College - University of London is an academic research centre focused entirely on pensions research. The website contains details of research undertaken at the Institute, abstracts of working papers and a clearinghouse of resources of interest to pension economists. They are also responsible for the peer reviewed journal Pensions - an international journal.
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Pensions Ombudsman
http://www.pensions-ombudsman.org.uk/
The Pensions Ombudsman investigates and decides complaints and disputes relating to the running of pension schemes in the UK. The site provides information on who can bring a complaint, the sort of pension schemes included and time limits for bringing complaints. Annual reports, application forms and guidance notes can be downloaded from the site and details of related bodies are also included. Determinations of the Ombudsman are available in full back to 2001 and can be searched by keyword or date.
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